Devices Newsletter

❄️ 🎄🎁 Snowflakes, Christmas carols and holly are top of mind this month. We're launching a festive snap competition using your Raspberry Pi - which we're truly excited about! We'll also be stargazing into IoT 2017 predictions in an upcoming webinar, selecting our favourite snaps from last month, reflecting on our awesome community and more! ❄️ 🎄🎁

Spotlight

Competition: Build a festive snap on your Raspberry Pi!

To celebrate this merry period what's better than a competition challenging you to create a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3. Using instructions listed in the blog below and your creativity, we’d love to see the entries that are the most festive, original and work across devices! Based on this we’ll be giving away prizes that include Raspberry Pi accessories, backpacks and videos of your creations to ensure it's viewed by those across the world! For more info including entry details, see below. Festive snapping folks!

Internet of Things

Webinar: 2017 - what's in store for IoT?

It's nearing the end of the year! Time to take a breather and plan for 2017. As part of our 'IoT builders' webinar series, we have asked some of the most prominent technologists, community builders and visionaries in this space for their advice and practical predictions on what's worth working on next! Speakers include Dominique Guinard (CTO & Co-founder EVRYTHNG), Ian Skerrett (VP Marketing, Eclipse Foundation) and Maarten Ectors (VP, IoT at Canonical.) Join us on December 13th at 17:00 (GMT.)

Desktop + Phone

10 Desktop snaps written in November!

It's that time of the month again where we round up our top ten snaps from the last month. The month of November brought everything from vikings, neurons to decentralised websites using Bitcoin crypto!

UbuCon Europe - a sure sign of community strength

UbuCon Europe demonstrated that the Ubuntu community is going strong! The event took place a few weeks ago in the northern German city of Essen, in a stunning artist-maker space with talks and workshops from Canonical staff and the wider community. The three days focused on talks and workshops covering Snaps, IoT, Bash on Ubuntu (!), 2017 planning...read more on the event below!

In other news...

We're proud to be supporting the State of the Developer Nation Survey run by our friends at VisionMobile! This is the 12th developer survey, focusing on a 360 view of developer tools, skills and salaries.